Into the Name of the Lord Jesus Baptism in the Early Church

by Hartman, Lars

• ISBN13: 9780567085894
• ISBN10: 0567085899
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780567113139
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark
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Summary

A comprehensive examination of all the passages in the New Testament, together with key documents from the apostolic Fathers, which allude to baptism.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii	(2)
Abbreviations	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
1. An early text	1	(2)
2. Baptism as a rite	3	(6)
1. The baptism of John	9	(20)
1.1. John the Baptist and his baptism	9	(6)
1.2. The interpretation of John's baptism in the Gospels	15	(6)
1.3. The baptism of Jesus	21	(8)
2. The origin of Christian baptism	29	(8)
3. `Into the name of the Lord Jesus'	37	(14)
3.1. The formula	37	(7)
3.2. The meaning of the formula	44	(7)
4. Paul	51	(32)
4.1. Introduction	51	(3)
4.2. Gal 3.26f	54	(5)
4.3. 1 Cor 1.12-17	59	(4)
4.4. 1 Cor 6.11	63	(3)
4.5. 1 Cor 12.13	66	(2)
4.6. Rom 6.1-14	68	(10)
4.7. The primitive motifs	78	(5)
5. Before Paul, and not only Paul: Material in the Pauline letters representing the views of other theologians	83	(12)
6. The school of Paul	95	(20)
6.1. The Letter to the Colossians	95	(7)
6.2. The Letter to the Ephesians	102	(6)
6.3. The Pastoral Letters	108	(7)
7. The First Letter of Peter	115	(8)
8. The Letter to the Hebrews	123	(4)
9. The Acts of the Apostles	127	(20)
9.1. Introduction	127	(2)
9.2. Baptism on the day of Pentecost	129	(4)
9.3. The Cornelius story	133	(3)
9.4. Spirit and baptism in the Samaria mission	136	(1)
9.5. The case of the `disciples' at Ephesus	137	(2)
9.6. Traces of ritual details?	139	(3)
9.7. The primitive motifs	142	(5)
10. The Gospel of Matthew	147	(8)
11. The Gospel of John	155	(6)
12. Mark 16.9-20	161	(2)
13. At the end of the road through the New Testament	163	(8)
13.1. Looking back	163	(6)
13.2. Onward?	169	(2)
14. Baptism in the Didache and in the Shepherd of Hermas	171	(16)
14.1. Didache	172	(5)
14.2. The Shepherd of Hermas	177	(10)
Bibliography	187	(17)
Index of ancient references	204	(7)
Index of modern authors	211